Pennsylvania held its first archery deer season in 1951. Only 5,542 people purchased the necessary $2 archery license so they could hunt in the bucks-only season. Those 5,000-plus hunters reported killing 33 bucks, which amounted to far less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the total deer harvest that [Read More]

Archery deer season recently got underway, and the small game seasons for ruffed grouse, squirrels and cottontail rabbits are set to open Saturday. Pheasant season opens a week later, on Saturday, Oct. 20. [Read More]

Few things get a hunter's heart pumping more than the cackle of a flushing ring-necked pheasant or the thunder of a ruffed grouse as it takes to the air. Other hunters have heightened anticipation when their baying beagles turn the corner and they know that a cottontail will be running their way. [Read More]

A small group from Wildlife For Everyone gathered to see more than 600 alien Galerucella calmariensis beetles released late last month at the Julian Wetlands — a man-made marsh adjacent to Miles Hollow Road, north of Port Matilda. [Read More]

PORT MATILDA — A small group from Wildlife For Everyone gathered to see more than 600 alien Galerucella calmariensis beetles released late last month at the Julian Wetlands — a man-made marsh adjacent to Miles Hollow Road, north of Port Matilda.
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Back in 1999, I was bouncing along over a rough gravel road in a pickup with then- Pennsylvania Game Commission elk biologist Rawley Cogan. Cogan was giving several writers and me a tour of a new addition to the Keystone State's elk range in the northcentral part of the state. That is when Cogan [Read More]

Chronic wasting disease is currently an inconvenience to some area hunters, and maybe only an afterthought to others. Like it or not, CWD is a serious concern. Understanding what is at stake, knowing the rules and following them should be on every deer hunter's agenda this fall. [Read More]

Chronic wasting disease is currently an inconvenience to some area hunters, and maybe only an afterthought to others. Like it or not, CWD is a serious concern. Understanding what is at stake, knowing the rules and following them should be on every deer hunter's agenda this fall.
Chronic wasting [Read More]